Whatcha reading redux.

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Rich Jordan
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Polychrome, by Ryk E. Spoor, a Kickstarter-funded follow on story to L. Frank Baum's Oz series of books.
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Finally finished Crime and Punishment last night. Started Notes from the Underground -- after that I think I'll go for something lighter, like King of the Khyber Rifles and Rung Ho! On the professional reading side I'm about halfway through Your Gut Is Still Not Smarter than Your Head, an excellent practitioner-oriented marketing book by Clancy and Krieg.
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Digging deep into my dead-tree library, I'm re-reading Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach. After that are the sequels, Dust on the Sea, and Cold is the Sea.
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Working through some Oracle documentation on Solaris Volume Manager. Haven't used it in over 10 years, when it was last known as Solstice Disksuite. We've started using it at work in some configurations, so have to refresh the old memory. Luckily it's relatively simple.
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I finished H Is For Hawk, and have begun Grant and Sherman: The Friendship That Won The Civil War, by Charles Flood. Back on a Civil War kick.

H Is For Hawk is a great read, btw. Helen MacDonald, an experienced falconer, takes on the challenges of training a goshawk, after the death of her father. The book is about dealing with grief, a look into the life of T.H. White, and ruminations on being human; it's also about falconry, of course.
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308Mike wrote:
evan price wrote:Image

Cracking open an old series.
WOW!! How old is THAT??? Have they been compiled into a book, and if so, are they a different name?

There are now three omnibus editions that compose the first books.
Beginning Operations (2001) contains Hospital Station, Star Surgeon and Major Operation.
Alien Emergencies (2002) contains Ambulance Ship, Sector General and Star Healer.
General Practice (2003) contains Code Blue - Emergency and The Genocidal Healer.

These are pretty old school hard SF in the style of the time it was published. It's good for a read!
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Just ordered the first six of the Aubrey/Maturin series. I can't wait!
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Captain Wheelgun wrote:Digging deep into my dead-tree library, I'm re-reading Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach. After that are the sequels, Dust on the Sea, and Cold is the Sea.
Books by Beach about subs are EXCELLENT!! ENJOY!!
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308Mike wrote:
Captain Wheelgun wrote:Digging deep into my dead-tree library, I'm re-reading Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach. After that are the sequels, Dust on the Sea, and Cold is the Sea.
Books by Beach about subs are EXCELLENT!! ENJOY!!
I'm about halfway through Cold is the Sea. I like how he worked in references to his own postwar adventures aboard USS Trigger and USS Triton.
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Finished "Joe Steele". The ending would give liberals aneurisms.

"The Stand" Stephen King. I'm thinking this was during his days of heavy cocaine and vodka usage.
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